BILL NUMBER: ACR 84	CHAPTERED  09/20/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   118
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 20, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   SEPTEMBER 9, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 3, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 3, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 2, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Reyes
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Ackerman, Alquist, Aroner, Ashburn,
Baldwin, Bates, Battin, Baugh, Bock, Brewer, Briggs, Calderon,
Campbell, Cardenas, Cardoza, Cedillo, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Cunneen,
Davis, Dickerson, Ducheny, Dutra, Firebaugh, Florez, Floyd, Frusetta,
Gallegos, Granlund, Havice, Hertzberg, Honda, House, Jackson,
Keeley, Knox, Kuehl, Leach, Lempert, Leonard, Longville, Lowenthal,
Machado, Maddox, Maldonado, Margett, Mazzoni, McClintock, Migden,
Nakano, Olberg, Oller, Robert Pacheco, Rod Pacheco, Papan, Pescetti,
Romero, Runner, Scott, Shelley, Soto, Steinberg, Strickland,
Strom-Martin, Thomson, Torlakson, Villaraigosa, Vincent, Washington,
Wayne, Wesson, Wiggins, Wildman, and Zettel)

                        AUGUST 24, 1999

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 84--Relative to the Officer
James Rapozo Memorial Freeway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 84, Reyes.  Officer James Rapozo Memorial Freeway.
   This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route
198 that is between the intersection with State Highway Route 99 and
State Highway Route 245 as the Officer James Rapozo Memorial Freeway.

   The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect appropriate plaques and markers.




   WHEREAS, Officer James Rapozo, a dedicated law enforcement officer
of the Visalia Police Department, died in the line of duty at the
age of 33, during a police raid of an apartment on January 9, 1998;
and
   WHEREAS, Officer Rapozo, a devoted husband and father, was born on
June 14, 1964, in Hanford, California, to Alfred and Aldine Rapozo;
and
   WHEREAS, Officer Rapozo graduated from Hanford Joint Union High
School, graduating in 1982, and then went on to attend California
State University at Fresno, from which he graduated in 1987 with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Criminology and Law Enforcement; and
   WHEREAS, In 1986, while attending CSU Fresno, Officer Rapozo
graduated from the Tulare/Kings County Police Academy; and
   WHEREAS, In 1989, Officer Rapozo married the former Merrilly
Johnson in Hanford, California; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Rapozo began his career in law enforcement with
the Hanford Police Department, and then moved on to the Kings County
Sheriff's Department and the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement of the
California Department of Justice; and
   WHEREAS, In 1992, Officer Rapozo went to work for the Visalia
Police Department, where he was a member of the Basic Car Team, the
SWAT team, the Field Training Unit, and the Patrol Planning Council;
and
   WHEREAS, Officer James J. Rapozo is survived by his wife, a son,
Max Rapozo, a daughter, Megan Rapozo, and his mother, Aldine Rapozo,
all of Visalia, California; a brother, Alfred Rapozo, Jr., of Clovis,
California; and two sisters, Kathleen Pearce, of Salinas,
California, and Patti Rapozo, of Boston, Massachussetts; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the portion of State Highway Route 198 that
is between the intersection with State Highway Route 99 and State
Highway Route 245 is hereby officially designated the Officer James
Rapozo Memorial Freeway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
the special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those plaques and markers; and
be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit a copy of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation.
